When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...
Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...
This year, the number of NASA-tracked confirmed worlds discovered beyond our solar system surpassed 6,000, and several thousand more await confirmation. The growing tally reflects how dramatically ...
A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA researchers. The exoplanet, known as super-Earth TOI-561b, was discovered in 2020, ...
At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...
That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...